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Salun-at ken Biag: Health Organizations Bring Solidarity Mission to Kalinga
As a response to the dire health situation of our people, various organizations from the Philippines and the USA pitched time, skills, resources, and common love for country to conduct a two-day medical and dental mission in Brgy. Poblacion, Balbalan, Kalinga on April 18 to 19, 2023. The mission rendered much-needed health services to about…
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Serving marginalized communities is not terrorism
This article is from Inquirer’s Letter To The Editor: February 08, 2023. https://opinion.inquirer.net/160909/serving-marginalized-communities-is-not-terrorism We, the Council for Health and Development, the national organization of community-based health programs (CBHPs) in the Philippines, strongly condemn the designation of Dr. Naty Castro as a terrorist and the Red-tagging of CBHP by the Anti-Terrorism Council (ATC). The ATC released…
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PHM webinar on “Stigmatization of health workers in contexts of armed conflict” on April 19
The People’s Health Movement is organizing a webinar on April 19th on the stigmatization of health workers in contexts of armed conflict. Worldwide health workers are facing different kinds of repression; significant part of them are stigmatized or red-tagged when working in conflict zones. They are portrayed as the enemy. And if they persist and…
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PHM organized an online session on Universal Health Coverage during the Be-cause health conference Breaking taboos in Global Health
The People’s Health Movement organized a webinar on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) during the Be-cause health conference Breaking taboos in Global Health on March 23-24, 2023. The webinar discusses the privatization of public health through “strategic purchasing” and how it undermines the development of a strong and vibrant public health system. Countries of both the global south…
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On the 3rd anniversary of the pandemic—health advocates denounce the failed, repressive, and negligent pandemic response and demand a free, comprehensive national public health system based on human rights and equity as the new normal
On the 3rd anniversary of the pandemic—health advocates denounce the failed, repressive, and negligent pandemic response and demand a free, comprehensive national public health system based on human rights and equity as the new normal After three years, over 66 million lives and many more livelihoods have been lost to the pandemic, yet many countries,…
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CHD discussed the Philippine health situation and CBHP to the international students conducting field research in Malate, Manila
Yesterday, Council for Health and Development discussed the current health situation in the Philippines and the community-based health program to the students of International Master of Arts in Diaconic Management (IMADM) of the United Evangelical Mission (UEM) in Shalom Hotel, Malate, Manila. It is part of the UEM’s IMADM Students’ Field Research in Metro Manila.…
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CHD participated in IPHU short course in Bangkok, Thailand
Representatives from Council for Health and Development and IBON Foundation completed their short course on “Action for Equitable Health Systems – Advancing universal comprehensive primary health care in pandemic times” by International People’s Health University (IPHU) in Bangkok, Thailand from December 6-11, 2022. This short course aims to build a better understanding among health activists…
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On International Human Rights Day, most Filipinos still do not enjoy a right to health
On International Human Rights Day, most Filipinos still do not enjoy a right to health; despite the pandemic, inequity in access to health services has risen amid marginal changes to infrastructure and budget—failing Constitutional and international obligations to protect and fulfill the people’s right to health and its defenders The United Nations fully defines the…
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A walk on the periphery
This article is from Global Sisters Report, written by Sr. Edita Eslopor, a member of CHD Board of Trustees. Original article can be found here: https://www.globalsistersreport.org/news/social-justice/column/walk-periphery I have read many articles that say walking has powerful benefits. As an exercise, it may lower our risk of high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes. It can…
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The president’s directives on health: Detached, shallow and vague
PRESS STATEMENTHealth groups Alliance of Health Workers, Coalition for People’s Right to Health, Filipino Nurses United, Health Action for Human Rights, Health Alliance for Democracy, and Philippine Medical Students’ Association expressed their critique and counter-proposals to the recent SONA of Pres. Marcos Jr. The president’s directives on health: Detached, shallow and vagueIn the principles of…
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Health groups participate in a consultation workshop on UN Universal Periodic Review
Quezon City, Philippines — Various civil society organizations (CSOs), including Council for Health and Development, Bantay Bakuna and the Coalition for People’s Right to Health participated in “CSOs Consultation on the UN Universal Periodic Review of the Philippines”, a two-day consultation workshop held from June 22 to 23, 2022 in Quezon City, National Capital Region.…
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CHD and other health organizations participated in “Picnic sa Bantayog” in Quezon City, sets up a health booth.
Yesterday, the Council for Health and Development, together with the Health Alliance for Democracy, Health Action for Human Rights, Alliance of Health Workers, and Philippine Medical Students’ Association set-up a health booth during the “Picnic sa Bantayog” event at the Bantayog ng mga Bayani, Quezon City to provide free health consultations and medical check-ups to…
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There is no right to health without the right to food, release the “Tinang 92”
The Council for Health and Development (CHD) is one with the farmers and land advocates in Hacienda Tinang, Concepcion, Tarlac in asserting for their right to land and execution of the Certificate of Land Ownership and Award (CLOA) that was first issued to them in 1995 under the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Likewise, CHD…
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Violence against health-care workers in the Philippines
Filipino health-care workers have not been immune to the growing violence and impunity in the country since President Duterte took office in 2016. Since 2017, at least ten doctors have been violently killed in various regions of the Philippines. Six were killed in 2017 alone…
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Council for Health and Development (CHD) 